WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 23 declined to grant certiorari, which left standing an agreement reached in In re Managed Care Litigation that bars several physicians and physician groups from bringing claims against WellPoint Inc. in In re WellPoint, Inc. Out-of-Network "UCR"...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 23 denied certiorari, leaving stand a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision holding that the Medicare as a Secondary Payer Act (MSP Act) authorizes the government to seek reimbursement from a settlement a plaintiff receives from a tortfeasor because...

CHICAGO - A divided Illinois appeals court on Feb. 27 reversed and vacated the judgment of a trial court granting the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and class certification in a health care subrogation dispute, saying the plaintiff had no right to rely on the common fund doctrine to support...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives' role as controller of the purse strings gives it sufficient injury to challenge the administration's alleged misallocation of public funds related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Republicans told a federal judge in the...

DENVER - A federal judge in Colorado on Feb. 25 declined to dismiss a suit in which the plaintiff accused his health insurance company of breach of contract for allegedly wrongfully informing him that the effective date of his coverage was later than it really was, causing the plaintiff to receive treatment...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 9 vacated a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals opinion that denied the University of Notre Dame an injunction in its challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) accommodation process and remanded the case for consideration in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Nearly 11.7 million consumers found insurance through Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces for 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said March 10.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Judicial economy is not served by considering a class certification motion in a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) challenge while appeals are pending, a federal judge held March 13 (The Catholic Benefits Association LCA; The Catholic Insurance Co. v. Sylvia M. Burwell,...

TAMPA, Fla. - A federal judge on March 18 granted the government's motion to stay a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate accommodation until the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals weighs in on a closely related case (Christian and Missionary Alliance...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - An Indian tribe waived its objections to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s large employer mandate by not raising them during the rulemaking process, and its action runs afoul of the Anti-Injunction Act's (AIA) bar on tax challenges taxes, the government told...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - An elected official cannot demonstrate injury from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s transitional policy allowing states to decide whether to impose minimum insurance requirements, and his establishment clause claims would not remedy any alleged injury, the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal judge should ignore "alarmist" rhetoric and instead find that House of Representatives members lack standing to challenge how the government spends Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) funds, the government argues in a March 31 brief (United States House...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A judge properly enjoined portions of a Missouri law governing the conduct of advisers employed to help people navigate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held April 10 in partially affirming (St. Louis Effort...

HELENA, Mont. - Montana Legislature on April 9 appeared to ready to enact legislation expanding Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) after a newly introduced bill survived four failed motions for a second reading and two motions to re-refer the legislation to the House...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on April 27 granted two Catholic groups' petition for certiorari and vacated a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate did not substantially burden religious beliefs. The court...

CHICAGO - Notre Dame is not entitled to a preliminary injunction while it challenges the opt-out provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s contraceptive mandate, a divided Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held May 19 (University of Notre Dame v. Kathleen Sebelius, et...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on June 8 denied the State of Maine's petition challenging mandatory continued Medicaid coverage for older children under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's maintenance of effort requirements, according to the docket (Mary C. Mayhew, in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s structure suggests the availability of tax subsidies in the federal exchange, and Congress could not have intended the state insurance market "death spirals" likely to result from barring such subsidies, a divided...

CHICAGO - Because a number of medical providers alleging that an insurer wrongfully reduced payments on health claims are not beneficiaries to an insurance contract, they are not entitled to allege claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 3 declined to review a woman's case involving, among other issues, the proper way to handle external benefit denial appeal after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ...